[Python-ideas] PEP 428 - object-oriented filesystem paths

[Massimo Di Pierro]

This is an excellent point. I change my vote to using the / operator (wait, do I even any right to vote not his?).

On Oct 9, 2012, at 9:30 AM, Michele Lacchia wrote:

> 
> > 
> > A reason *not* to use '+' is that it would violate associativity 
> > in some cases, e.g. 
> > 
> >   (path + "foo") + "bar" 
> > 
> > would not be the same as 
> > 
> >   path + ("foo" + "bar") 
> > 
> 
> 
> I am missing something. Why not? 
> 
> Because the result would be (respectively): path/foo/bar and path/foobar.
> In the second example the two strings would be concatenated and only
> then joined to the path.
> This is a very good argument against the + operator!

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